The Democratic Front of Chad (Front Démocratique du Tchad or FDT) was a Chad

Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

ian political party active in the 1980s.

A coalition of four pre-existing groups formed in Paris

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 in 1985 in opposition to both opposition leader Goukouni Oueddei

Goukouni Oueddei

Goukouni Oueddei is a Chadian political figure. He was Head of State of Chad from 1979 to 1982. He is currently in exile.-Biography:...

 and President

Heads of state of Chad

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 Hissène Habré

Hissène Habré

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, and dominated by southern Chadians, it was led by the general Negue Djogo

Negue Djogo

Negue Djogo was a Chadian officer and politician.A French-trained Sara officer, his first prominent assignment came in 1966 when, still a lieutenant, he was made by President François Tombalbaye prefect of the key Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region, which France, Chad's former colonial power, had...

. Among its members was the future Prime Minister

Heads of government of Chad

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 Jean Alingué Bawoyeu

Jean Alingué Bawoyeu

Jean Alingué Bawoyeu , known in French as the vieux sage, which translates as "wise elder", is a Chadian politician. A Christian, his base of support is in Tandjilé, in southern Chad, from which he originates. He was President of the National Assembly in 1990 and then Prime Minister from 1991 to 1992...

. The FDT, which boasted that it was supported by the United States

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 and France

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, accused Habré's government of genocide for its massacres in the south, and it supported the Codos

Codos

The Codos or Commandos were guerrilla groups, active in southern Chad from 1983 to 1986, that resisted domination of their region by the President Hissène Habré's army. Many were veterans of the government army of the 1970s or Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué's Chadian Armed Forces , which had collapsed...

' insurgency.

At the end of 1985 the group participated with Alphonse Kotiga

Alphonse Kotiga

Colonel Alphonse Kotiga, also known as Kotiga Guérina, was a Chadian military officer and politician. He was one of the leaders of the coup d'etat which overthrew and killed Chadian President François Tombalbaye on April 15, 1975, and then became a minister in the government of the new president,...

's Codos and Acheikh ibn Oumar

Acheikh ibn Oumar

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's CAC-CDR at peace talks with Habré at Libreville

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 in Gabon

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 under the patronage of Omar Bongo

Omar Bongo

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. The talks were successful, and on December 23 Djogo signed a peace accord which sanctioned the entrance of the FDT in the government; Djogo was to become Minister of Justice, while other two party leaders were to be made minister of finance and minister of culture, youth, and sports. The accord also tried to fix a deadline for the adoption of a democratic constitution, and this party's goal was reasserted in a press conference on March 4, 1986, when Djogo stated that the FDT saw as the sole solution to Chad's crisis a return to democratic institutions. But in truth the FDT was rapidly co-opted in the sole legal party, Habré's National Union for Independence and Revolution

National Union for Independence and Revolution

The National Union for Independence and Revolution was the ruling party in Chad between 1984 and 1990. It was founded in June 1984 by President Hissène Habré as a successor of his Armed Forces of the North, the insurgent group through which Habré had conquered power in 1982...

(UNIR), of which Djogo became a member of the Central Committee in 1989.